Randy CappsDirector of Research for U.S. Programs

February 1, 2015Migration Policy Institute

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Randy Capps is director of research for U.S. programs at the
Migration Policy Institute. His areas of expertise include
immigration trends, the unauthorized population, immigrants in
the U.S. labor force, the children of immigrants and their
well-being, and immigrant health-care and public benefits access
and use. Capps, a demographer, has published widely on immigrant
integration at the state and local levels, including profiles of
immigrant populations in Arkansas, Connecticut and Maryland, as
well as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Louisville, Ky., and Napa
County, Calif. He also has examined the impact of the detention
and deportation of immigrant parents on children. Prior to
joining MPI, Capps was a researcher in the Immigration Studies
Program at the Urban Institute from 1993 to 1996 and 2000 to
2008. He received his doctorate in sociology from the University
of Texas in 1999 and his master’s, also from the University of
Texas, in 1992.